““I would be scared if I were a primarily a UI provider like Apple, Android, Windows, Salesforce etc. These agents are universal UIs” Disruption ahead.” / X – https://twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/1758042096592966032

“Shanghai 🇨🇳 AI Lab Achieved 1st Version of Karpathy’s AI Operating System > Nov 2023: @karpathy proposes LLM OS > Feb 2024: Chinese (+ Princeton) team proposes self learning operating system What did they do? > Built an agent using a mix of Python code and GPT-4 language model… https://t.co/1aJaCjwPgN” / X – https://twitter.com/8teAPi/status/1757854251794247824

Largest text-to-speech AI model yet shows ’emergent abilities’ (with audio samples) | TechCrunch – Researchers at Amazon have trained the largest ever text-to-speech model yet, which they claim exhibits “emergent” qualities improving its ability to speak even complex sentences naturally.

Largest text-to-speech AI model yet shows ’emergent abilities’

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AI News #20: Week Ending 02/16/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 39 Stories

The post you just read is an extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

• Agents/Copilots
• Apple
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
• Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
• Autonomous Vehicles
• AI Audio
• Business and Enterprise AI
• Chips and Hardware
• Consumer Products
• Education
• Ethics/Legal Security
• Images/Photos
• Google
• Locally Run AI Models
• Meta
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Open Source
• Podcasts/YouTube
• Publishing and News
• Robots and Embodiment
• Science and Medicine
• Video
• Vision/Multimodality
• X/Twitter/Grok
• Tech and Development

Credits/Sources

Most of these links come from just a few incredible sources.  Please follow them:

• Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
• Ethan Mollick:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
• David Armano: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darmano/
• Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
• Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia 
• The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
• Borriss: https://twitter.com/_Borriss_  
• Bilawal Sidhu:  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/ 
• TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai 
• Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang 
• Wes Roth: https://www.youtube.com/@WesRoth 

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